Management

Mr. Sambrooks currently serves as Midstates President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Sambrooks has over 37 years of experience in the energy industry. Most recently he served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Sabine Oil & Gas, LLC (which was formerly known as NFR Energy LLC) from 2007 to 2016. In his roles at Sabine, Mr. Sambrooks led strategic, financial, operational, business development and organizational efforts. Mr. Sambrooks previously ...

Mitch Elkins joined Midstates in January 2012 as VP Drilling and Completions. He accepted the role of VP Operations in 2014. Prior to joining Midstates Mitch worked as the International Drilling Manager for Transatlantic in Istanbul and the Drilling and Completions Manager for Apache in their Australian operations. Prior to that he held a variety of roles for Unocal, Apache and owned a project management company supporting clients such as Apache, Chevron, Perenco, Shell and others in internation...

Scott WeatherholtVice President – General Counsel & Corporate SecretaryVice President – Land

Scott WeatherholtVice President – General Counsel & Corporate SecretaryVice President – Land

Scott C. Weatherholt joined Midstates Petroleum Company in February 2015 and currently serves as Midstates’ Vice President – General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, as well as its Vice President - Land. For approximately 10 years prior joining Midstates, Mr. Weatherholt was an attorney at Samson Resources Company, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had most recently held the position of Assistant General Counsel and oversaw Samson’s day-to-day legal activities as well as had managerial resp...